Grant Wood was born on February 13, 1891 on a farm 4 miles east of Anamosa, Iowa. He was Francis Maryville Wood and Hattie DeEtte Weaver Wood’s 2nd child. In the year 1901 his father died and his family moved to the Cedar Rapids. Once he had graduated from Washington high school wood decided to go to an art school in Minneapolis in the year 1910. He returned to this school a year later to teach in a one room school house. He enrolled at the school of Art institute of Chicago
In 1913 he enrolled at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and performed some work as a silversmith. He made four trips to Europe in the years 1920-1928. Where he learned about many different styles of paintings, he showed the most focus on Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. But it was the 15th century artist Jan van Eyck that inspired him to take on the challenge of using this new technique and incorporating it into his new paintings. Wood lived in the loft of a carriage house and turned it into his own personal studio on 5 Turner Ally in the year 1924 – 1935 (the studio did not have an address until Wood made one up). In 1934-1941 Wood taught at the University of Iowa's School of Art and supervised mural painting projects as well as tutoring students and producing varieties of his own work while becoming a key part of the University's cultural community. Wood was fired from the university because of his relationship with his personal secretary. On the 12th of February the day before Woods 51 birthday (1942) he died at the university hospital of pancreatic cancer. Woods land went to his sister. When woods sister died in 1990 her land and woods art and personal effects became a part of the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa.
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Grant Wood was born on February 13, 1891 on a farm 4 miles east of Anamosa, Iowa. He was Francis Maryville Wood and Hattie DeEtte Weaver Wood’s 2nd child. In the year 1901 his father died and his family moved to the Cedar Rapids. Once he had graduated from Washington high school wood decided to go to an art school in Minneapolis in the year 1910. He returned to this school a year later to teach in a one room school house. He enrolled at the school of Art institute of Chicago
In 1913 he enrolled at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and performed some work as a silversmith. He made four trips to Europe in the years 1920-1928. Where he learned about many different styles of paintings, he showed the most focus on Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. But it was the 15th century artist Jan van Eyck that inspired him to take on the challenge of using this new technique and incorporating it into his new paintings. Wood lived in the loft of a carriage house and turned it into his own personal studio on 5 Turner Ally in the year 1924 – 1935 (the studio did not have an address until Wood made one up). In 1934-1941 Wood taught at the University of Iowa's School of Art and supervised mural painting projects as well as tutoring students and producing varieties of his own work while becoming a key part of the University's cultural community. Wood was fired from the university because of his relationship with his personal secretary. On the 12th of February the day before Woods 51 birthday (1942) he died at the university hospital of pancreatic cancer. Woods land went to his sister. When woods sister died in 1990 her land and woods art and personal effects became a part of the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa.